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Who has stayed there? We are thining about this resort for our 2012 trip. We are wishfully including both DP, but realistically, it will be only DM. I saw on Deb's site the handicapped accessible one and have tons of ????.
Can you park your vehicle next to the treehouse? We will be bringing a small trailer to lug all DMs equipment and would like to store it next to the room.
I saw on one pic, that there are stools in the bar area, is this also in the handicapped rooms? How roomy is the Master bedroom? We will be bringing DM's sleep chair, and want to make sure she has enough room to move around.
Any other info you can give me will be appreciated, so bring it on, the good, the bad and the ugly.
TIA
Beth
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I haven't stayed there - yet - but went by via boat. They look really cool, and it appears you can park your car right there. More like renting a house than staying at a hotel. SSR is one of our home resorts so we look forward to staying there at some point. I think it would be great to stay in a treehouse for Christmas!
Each Treehouse is allocated only ONE parking space. The land on which the treehouses site is designated as protected wetlands. As such, Disney had to stick with the original layout from the 70s which only had one space per villa. The resort requests that additional vehicles be parked in The Grandstand lot which is about a 5 minute walk from the treehouse area. If you have a trailer, I would recommend unloading whatever you need and then parking it in the designated area for the remainder of the stay.
I don't know how big a "sleep chair" is but there is not a lot of excess space in any of the bedrooms. The master bedroom has a queen bed, dresser, desk (with TV mounted above) and a couple of nightstands. There is only about 2 1/2 to 3' of clearance to walk through the room. There really aren't any large unused spaces that wouldn't be blocking a walkway.
The living room/dining room/kitchen area is pretty wide open and you could free up some space in there by shifting furniture around.
they have sleep chairs at AKL and they are about the size of a twin bed if I recall right. Suficient space for a child.
I'm familiar with that, and the Treehouses actually have one in the living room. But OP said:
"We will be bringing DM's sleep chair..."
I'm not particularly confident that some sleep chair brought from home will fit in the master bedroom of one of the treehouses. Living room--perhaps. But the bedrooms are all pretty narrow due to the unique design of the treehouses (which could not be altered substantially from the original 70s design due to building restrictions.)
Here's a close up of the master bedroom that I just happened to have in my Photobucket account:
There MIGHT be some space toward the top of that image over by the closet. But the door on the right-hand wall leads to the master bathroom so that cannot be blocked.
I found the master bedroom the most roomy of all bedrooms so if a sleep chair would fit in any bedroom, it would be that one. I'm one who will move a table, stand to make room for something and then put it back in its original spot before leaving. That would be another option.
As far as parking, it is a slight distance from the treehouses -- not a couple of steps from the door. The treehouse next to us was a handicapped one -- it was further back than ours. There is no extra parking around the treehouse area. You definitely would need to unload the trailer and park over in one of the SSR parking lots.
It is a very relaxful area to stay in -- quiet and very family-oriented. You are transformed from then normal hotel room feeling to being in your own house.
Thanks for all of the info. We ususally have to move furniture around to make room for her sleep chair, but that's ok, cause it makes her more comfortable.
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